HAPPY NEW YEARS EVERYONE!!!
I can't believe it is already 2017, time literally flies by in the blink of any eye. Everyone always tells you that, but you never believe it until it actually happens.
This week has been another great week! It was a little bit crazy with transfer and flying down to Richmond to pick up Sister Poulson, but we are so grateful to have our new Sisters here! Joseph enjoyed his first Sunday of a new year, living a new life as a new member. He is doing so well and is eager to continue to learn every day!
We also have been teaching these two single mom bffs, Coral and Kat, (who we have yet to take a picture with because they "never look good that day"), but who are absolutely wonderful and have such a great desire to follow God. They both accepted baptismal dates for February 11, and we are excited to help them draw closer to their Savior, Jesus Christ.
I love my Savior, Jesus Christ, and the special opportunity I have had to be on my mission this entire past year. My mission means everything to me because my Savior means everything to me. How grateful I am for the life that He lived and continues to live. My amazing trainee has the most wonderful quote about the atonement that I'd love to share this week.
"We know that on some level Jesus experiences the totality of mortal existence in Gethsemane. it's our faith that he experienced everything- absolutely everything. Sometimes we don't think through the implications of that belief. We talk in great generalities about the sins of all humankind, about the suffering of the entire human family. But we don't experience pain in generalities. We experience it individually. That means Jesus knows what it felt like when your mother died of cancer- how it was for your mother, how it still is for you. He knows what it felt like to lose the student-body election. He knows that moment when the brakes locked, and the car started to skid, He experienced the slave ship sailing from Ghana to Virginia. He experienced the gas chambers at Dachau. he experienced napalm in Vietnam. He knows about drug addiction and alcoholism... His last recorded words to his disciples were, 'And, lo, I am with you always even unto the end of the World." (Matt 28:20) What does that mean? it means he understands your mother-pain when your five-year old leaves for kindergarten, when a bully picks on your fifth-grader, when your daughter calls to say that the new baby has Down's syndrome... He knows the pain you live with when you come home to a quiet apartment where the only children who ever come are visitors, when you hear that your former husband and his new wife were sealed in the temple last week, when your fiftieth wedding anniversary rolls around and your husband has been dead for two years. He knows all that. he's been there. He's been lower than all that."- Chieko N. Okazaki
And that is my testimony to each of you. That your savior Jesus Christ knows and loves you. He has descended below it all, and because he has, you don't have to.
I love you all each so much, and pray that will this new year, that each of us will make a little bit more room for our Savior, that we will let him heal us and transform us into the people He needs us to be and the people that we want to be. I promise you it's worth it, and nothing brings more lasting joy than following our Savior, Jesus Christ. I love you all, and wish you the best that this new year has to bring! Let is change you, let Him change you.
Love always,
Sister Robertson
Pictures:
1) Christmas Sunday with the FHE group
2) Christmas Sunday with all our amazing missionaries serving in the Prince George area
3) Sweet Sister Poulson. She is from Gilbert, Arizona and let's just say living in P.G is a lot of fun when you're both from really hot places :'-)
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